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Got a tricky question about your farm business? Get advice from our team of experts. From a wide range of topics from finance to planning permission to tax queries, to staff issues, we cover it all in our Business Clinic.

If we haven’t tackled a question you have yet in our articles below, then send us your query in no more that 350 words to:

Business Clinic, Farmers Weekly, Mark Allen Group, 1st Floor, Chancery House, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey SM1 1JB. Alternatively email your question to FW-Businessclinic@markallengroup.com.

Carter Jonas

Thrings

Macintyre Hudson

SUCCESSION PLANNING

Farm succession: Expert advice to ensure a smooth path

With farming being more than a business for most families, it can be difficult to put emotion to one side when planning for succession. However, thinking strategically can achieve an…

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Business Clinic: What are my options for historic building?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Mark Charter, partner and head of estate management at Carter Jonas, advises…

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Business Clinic: How do I plan loan to one of our children?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Conor Melvin, associate in Thrings' corporate team, advises on how to approach a loan to…

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Business Clinic: Tax advice on farm sale and kit disposal

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Joe Spencer, a partner with MHA, advises on the tax implications of moving to using…

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Business Clinic: Succession prompts decisions on farmland

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Edward Beale, associate partner with Carter Jonas, advises on a question of…

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Business Clinic: Responsibility for hedges, trees and ditches

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Tanya Griffiths, associate in the Thrings Agricultural Litigation team, advises on responsibility for…

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Business Clinic: Advice on employing staff for the first time

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Joe Spencer, a partner in MHA, advises on the administration implications of employing…

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Business Clinic: Tax advice on shared land project

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Joe Spencer, a partner in MHA, advises on the tax relief implications…

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Business Clinic: Do BNG rules apply to dog walking paddock?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Lucy George, associate with Carter Jonas advises on a diversification planning question.…

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Business Clinic: Raising concerns over neighbour's septic tank

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Russell Reeves, partner, Thrings, advises on how to go about a potentially tricky…

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Business Clinic: Should smallholder become VAT registered?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Joe Spencer, partner, MHA, advises on a smallholder’s VAT questions See also:…

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Business Clinic: Get authorities to control roadside ragwort

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Russell Reeves, partner, Thrings, advises on how to go about getting the…

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